[ntp:questions] Setting back-up network servers to minpoll 10 automatically when sychronizied to a referrence clock.

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed Jul 13 17:28:25 UTC 2011


On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:53 AM, Edward T. Mischanko wrote:
> I am using GPS with PPS as my primary time source.  I don't want 
> to set my back-up network servers to minpoll 10 in the 
> configuration because if the GPS ever fails the servers would be 
> fixed at minpoll 10.

If your machine has been sync'ed with a GPS PPS signal for a while, it's likely to have a very well calibrated drift for the local clock, and it's likely to keep entirely reasonable time until GPS signal is restored, even without talking to some other source of time every minute.

Why is polling remote ntpd's at poll interval of 10 an issue?

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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